The Sunday Times Cartoon

Could someone please explain to me how this cartoon is anti-semitic? I am being serious because I've heard news reports all day and I don't see it at all.

I can see the cartoon is suggesting the Israeli policy with regard to the Palestine is heavy handed - building a wall from the bodies of the Palestinian people - but I can't at all see how it is saying that Jewish people are to blame.

I was fuming about this all day yesterday. What a terrible, terrible accusation to make against Scarfe. I don't think there is anything to suggest that it is anti-Semitic, rather than simply a criticism of Israeli government policy. The "blood libel," though of course an atrocity, is not something that will come to many people's minds. Blood is a very common image in political satire, certainly in Scarfe's cartoons. It has to be, because governments routinely have blood on their hands.

I would agree but think that Holocaust Memorial day was not the day to publish it. There seems to be a tendency in some quarters to almost excuse the Holocaust because "look what the Israelis' are doing to the Palestinians".